Journal
JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS
Volume 33, Issue 4, Pages 968-974Publisher
FUJI TECHNOLOGY PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2021.p0968
Keywords
soft gripper; multi-layer of dielectric elastomer actuators; dielectric elastomer actuator
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- Research Exchange Program at the Shibaura Institute of Technology
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Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are promising technology for soft robotics, with applications including grippers, artificial muscles, and heel strike generators. Multi-layered DEAs have the potential to be strong grippers, offering advantages such as light weight, fast response, and low cost.
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are a promising technology for soft robotics. The use of DEAs has many advantages, including light weight, resilience, and fast response for its applications, such as grippers, artificial muscles, and heel strike generators. Grippers are commonly used as grasping devices. In this study, we focus on DEA applications and propose a technology to expand the applicability of a soft gripper. The advantages of gripper-based DEAs include light weight, fast response, and low cost. We fabricated soft grippers using multiple DEA layers. The grippers successfully held or gripped an object, and we investigated the response time of the grippers and their angle characteristics. We studied the relationship between the number of DEA layers and the performance of our grippers. Our experimental results show that the multi-layered DEAs have the potential to be strong grippers.
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